Top waiting Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of waiting quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Simon R. Green
Wait. You've got principles? We'll have to update your file.
- Simon R. Green
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Image of Patricia McCormick
Then I placed the blade next to the skin on my palm. A tingle arched across my scalp. The floor tipped up at me and my body spilled away. Then I was on the ceiling looking down, waiting to see what would happen next.
- Patricia McCormick
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Image of Earl Nightingale
Don't wait for change. You change.
- Earl Nightingale
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Image of V. S. Naipaul
Life is a helluva thing. You can see trouble coming and you can't do a damn thing to prevent it coming. You just got to sit and watch and wait.
- V. S. Naipaul
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Image of Fred Thompson
I'm not above acting like a seal every once in a while and waiting for the next fish, I just don't want to do it all the time.
- Fred Thompson
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Image of Fred Thompson
We, as a nation, cannot wait for the Pearl Harbor of the information age. We must increase our vigilance to tackle this problem before we are hit with a surprise attack.
- Fred Thompson
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Image of Erich Maria Remarque
It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.
- Erich Maria Remarque
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Image of Susan Mallery
I know that's an endorsement I've been waiting for," Skye added. "Perfectly adequate in bed. They should make that into a T-shirt
- Susan Mallery
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Image of Michael Scott
Some stories wait their turn to be told, others just tap you on the shoulder and insist you tell them.
- Michael Scott
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Image of Lauren Willig
Patience is only a virtue when there is something worth waiting for.
- Lauren Willig
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Image of Harriet Lerner
If you want a recipe for relationship failure, just wait for the other person to change first.
- Harriet Lerner
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Image of Grandma Moses
I would never sit back in a rocking chair, waiting for someone to help me.
- Grandma Moses
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Image of Creflo A. Dollar
All my life I've been waiting to understand. Look what God has done for me!
- Creflo A. Dollar
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Image of Meg Rosoff
If you have the patience to wait and watch, history will reshape truth (weakest of all forces, and weightless) in the image of opinion. What really happened will cease to matter and, eventually, cease to exist.
- Meg Rosoff
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Image of Charles Stanley
When we surrender to His timing, He does mighty things in and for us, according to His will and His timing. God acts on behalf of those who wait for Him.
- Charles Stanley
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Image of Walter Mosley
A peasant that reads is a prince in waiting.
- Walter Mosley
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Image of Patrick Carman
But sometimes you have to wait for an answer to come to you. Especially when the questions are difficult ones.
- Patrick Carman
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Image of Helen Oyeyemi
It occurred to me that I was unhappy. And it didn’t feel so very terrible. No urgency, nothing. I could slip out of my life on a slow wave like this—it didn’t matter. I don’t have to be happy. All I have to do is hold on to something and wait.
- Helen Oyeyemi
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Image of Elif Safak
Love exists within each of us from the moment we are born and waits to be discovered from then on.
- Elif Safak
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Image of Susanna Clarke
He understood for the first time that the world is not dumb at all, but merely waiting for someone to speak to it in a language it understands.
- Susanna Clarke
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Image of Octavio Paz
Beyond myself, somewhere, I wait for my arrival.
- Octavio Paz
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Image of Perry Moore
You can't go on like you're going to start really living one day like all this is some preamble to some great life thats magically going to appear. I'm a firm believer that you have to create your own miracles, don't hold out that there's something better waiting on the other side. It doesn't work that way. When you're gone, you're gone. Don't wait.
- Perry Moore
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Image of Sara Zarr
That's how life feels to me. Everyone is doing it; everyone knows how. To live and be who they are and find a place, find a moment. I'm still waiting.
- Sara Zarr
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Image of Darynda Jones
Death comes to those who wait. And to those who don't. So either way.
- Darynda Jones
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Image of Jacqueline Carey
To have a traitor for an ally is to have an enemy in waiting
- Jacqueline Carey
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Image of Samuel Beckett
Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
- Samuel Beckett
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Image of Saul Bellow
When the striving ceases, there is life waiting as a gift.
- Saul Bellow
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Image of Nicole Blackman
And all we are waiting for is something worth waiting for.
- Nicole Blackman
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Image of Merle Shain
The day you spend hoping, the day you spend waiting, the day you spend in despair, is a day in your life as much as the tomorrow you hope for, but which may never come, so betting today on tomorrow is always a bad bet.
- Merle Shain
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Image of Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
To know how to eat well, one must first know how to wait.
- Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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Image of Addison Mizner
They also swear who only stand and wait.
- Addison Mizner
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Image of Marsha Norman
I'm who I was waiting for. I didn't make it.
- Marsha Norman
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Image of Robert Munsch
I tell the stories in front of audiences and wait for something to happen. It's similar to a standup comic doing his schtick for an audience.
- Robert Munsch
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Image of J.R. Ward
For him , life was a coin that had disaster on one side and waiting for disaster on the other
- J.R. Ward
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Image of Adam Young
Maybe some are so busy waiting, they forget what indescribable beauty is right there in front of them.
- Adam Young
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Image of Charles F. Haanel
All power that anyone can possibly use is within, waiting to be made visible, first by recognizing it, then affirming it as ours.
- Charles F. Haanel
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Image of Kay Ryan
Who would have guessed it possible that waiting is sustainable. A place with its own harvest.
- Kay Ryan
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Image of Tom Rath
Every human being has talents that are just waiting to be uncovered.
- Tom Rath
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Image of Susan Minot
There is no good reason. Don't waste your life waiting for good reasons...You'll wait and wait.
- Susan Minot
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Image of Julie James
Jack turned to Cameron. "Do you just line them up, waiting to yell at me, on the off chance I'll stop by?
- Julie James
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Image of Buck Owens
I've got the hungries for your love and I'm waiting in your welfare line.
- Buck Owens
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Image of Pat Williams
Well, just to dispel all the myths, Walt [Disney] was not anti-Semitic. He was not racist in any way, shape, or form. He was not frozen when his life ended. He's not in some frozen vault right now waiting to make a big comeback.
- Pat Williams
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Image of Vera Brittain
An author who waits for the right 'mood' will soon find that 'moods' get fewer and fewer until they cease altogether.
- Vera Brittain
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Image of Patrick Ness
I was a hugely unchaperoned reader, and I would wander into my local public library and there sat the world, waiting for me to look at it, to find out about it, to discover who I might be inside it.
- Patrick Ness
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Image of Alexander Shulgin
Some part of me can't wait to see what life's going to come up with next! Anticipation without the usual anxiety. And underneath it all is the feeling that we both belong here, just as we are, right now.
- Alexander Shulgin
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Image of David Deida
Stop hoping for a completion of anything in life... Do what you love to do, what you are waiting to do, what you've been born to do, now.
- David Deida
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Image of William Saroyan
When I began to wait to live I really began to wait to die.
- William Saroyan
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Image of Howard Thurman
There is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself.
- Howard Thurman
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Image of Douglas Coupland
You keep waiting for the moral of your life to become obvious, but it never does. Work, work, work: No moral. No plot. No eureka! Just production schedules and days. You might as well be living inside a photocopier. Your lives are all they're ever going to be.
- Douglas Coupland
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